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LITERARY REVIEW. The ENEIS of VIRGIL. Translated by CuAR LES SYmmoNs, D.D. of Jesus College, Oxford, 410. Velle videmnr, et in mediis conatibus mar e Succidimus; NON LINGUA VALET. R. HUNTER, St. Palll's CiIIITCII-yard; and J. PORTER, Pall- Mall. Now that the din of the Westminster Election and its turbulence is ended, the Muses may expect to be heard, and therefore we return with pleasure to this valuable addition to the stock of British Literature. In our last notices of this Poem, we extracted, from its Elerunth Book, the description of the death of CAMILLA, in the two translations which we ,had before us and we promised to submit to our Readers, in the present instance, that very animated and vigorous passage, in which the Ro man Poet has pourtrayed the rout of the Latian Cavalry, consequent to the fall of the Volscian Queen. DRYDEN here shows himself in all his power, and it will - iemain with our Readers to determine in what degrees the two English Poets have, respectively, approached their great ori ginal, and have been actuated with the spirit of the Augustan Bard. Our extract will begin at I. 870, Disj.ctique cluces, desolatique munipli , " The frighted soldiers, when their captains fly, More on their speed than on their strength rely. Confused in flight, they bear each other down, And spur their horses headlong to the town. Driven.by their foes, and to their fates resign'd, • Not once they turn ; but take their wounds behind. These drop the shield, and those the lance forego ; Or on their shoulders bear the slacten'd bow. The hoofs of horses, with a rattling sound, Beat short and thick, and shake the rotten ground. Black clouds of dust come rolling in the sky: Aud o'er the darken'd 'walls and rampires fly. The trembling matrons, from their lofty stands, Rend heaven with female shrieks, and vet ing their hands. All pressing on, pursuers and pursued, Arc crush'd in crowds, a mingled multitude. Some happy few escape; the throng too late Rush on for entrance, till they choke the gate. Ev'o in the sight. of home, the wretched sire Looks on, and see his hapless son expire. Then, in a fright, the folding gates they close : But leave their friends excluded with their foes. The vanquish'd cry, the victors loudly shout ; 'Tis terror all within, and slaughter all without. Blind in their fear, they bounce against the wall ; Or to the moats pursued, precipitate their fall. The Latian virgins, valiant from despair, Ared on the towers, the common danger share. So much of zeal their'country's cause inspired: So much cAMILLA'S great example fired. Poles sharpen'd in the flames, from high they throw, With imitated darts, to gall the foe. Their lives for godlike freedom they bequeath • And crowd each other to he first in death." D lIYDEN. " The wasted bands, their chieftains overthrown, Spur to obtain the safety of the town : Nor, as with death the Trojans scour the plain, Are any found the conflict to sustain. Behind then► hang their bows, unnerved and dead; And the turf groans beneath their•coursers' tread. A dusty whirlwind, hlack'ning into night, Rolls on the city, and proclaims the flight: And, ranged upon the walls, the matron crowd Beat their sad bosoms and lament aloud. Who first press forward, as the gates unclose, Enter, confounded with irruptive foes; Nor 'scape from death : for e'en within the wall The hostile spear arrests them, and they fall. Pierced as they print by the paternal dour, The threshold blushes with its master's gore. Some bar the gates, and, harden'd by their fears, Heed not the excluded victim's prayers or tears : , And wretched carnage mingles friend with friend, As one would force the pass, and one defend. Part, within hearing of their parents' groan, Are crusted, and • hcadlong in the trenches thrown. Part, in despair and f►antic with their fates, Dash their gored steeds against the obdurate gates. On the high rampart e'en the matrons prone, In this last exigence, the patriot lore. Tau g ht by CAMILLA how their sex could dare, In their weak handS unwonted arms they bear: St►ike with the pointed oak, made hard by fire; • And foremost, for their walls, to death aspire :" SYNMONS. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. REPORT ON THE USURY LAWS. The SELECT COMMITTEE appointed to consider of the effects of the Laws which regulate or restrain the Interest of Mo ney, and to report their opinion thereupon to the House; and who were empowered to report the Minutes of the Evi dence taken before them, have, pursuant to the Order of the House, examined the matters referred to them, and harc agreed upon the following Resolutions : I. Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the laws regulating or restraining the rate of Interest, have been extensively evaded, and have failed of the effect of ins posing a maximum on such rate; and that of late years, from the constant excess of the market rate of interest above the rate limited by law, they have added to the expense incurred by borrowers on real security, and that such borrowers have been compelled to resort to the mode of granting annnities on lives; a mode which has !teen made a corer for obtaining a higher interest than the rate limited by law, and has fur ther subjected the borrowers to enormous charges, or forced them to make very disadvantageous sales of their estates. 2. Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the construction of Such laws, as applicable to tiie transac tions of commerce as at present carried on, have been attend ed with much uncertainty as to the legality of many transac tions of frequent occurrence, and consequently hrt•n produc tive of much embarrassment and litigation. 3. Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the present period, when the market rate of interest is below the legal rate, affords an opportunity peculiarly proper fur tint repeal of the said laws,--ZUlb May, 1313. FOR THE SUN: Mn. EDIT()R,—T he enemy has thrown off the mask, and I heartily congratulate you upon it ; hitherto they have fought under false colours, as is common with such marauders, but now their objects are avowed—" Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage ;"—or, as a well-meaning, but illiterate, man vu•ry 1141)1)4 expressed it—" Ani mal Parliaments and Universal Sufferings ;" which - , he said, very wisely, he could not ap prove. I have been long endeavouring to con vince, not you (who did not require it), but your Readers, that this was their real aim—a Republic ; a stark staring Democracy. Now they,have con fessed it. For thiit Annual Parliaments and De mocracy are synonimous, not even a driveller can doubt. Sir F. BURDETT, just before the close of the Session, deClared (for the first time) for Annual , Parliaments and Universal Suffrage. This, it seems, has gained him his Election. We are to conclude, therefore, that the numerical majority of the Electors for Westminster are for these things. But that the majority in weight, pro perty, and respectability, are decidedly against them, is no less clear. Sir S. Rosm.LY'S majority may be supposed to consist chiefly of Whigs; that is, of Constitutionalists, who wish to be in power, but are not ; and thetefore call the Mi nisters Tories. These, therefore, for the most part, are against BURDETT j though their coali tion has brought.them to divide votes with hitia I trust, therefore, that the very great majority of Electors are .against the abominations of BUR.- DETT.—I believe, in fact, that 13URDETT himself is against them ; if a man so infatuated with vanity can have any real principles. They, however, who doubt upon the question may now be fully enlightened. What the late Westminster Election has been, with all its dis graceful excesses, furies, and villanies, such would be the state of every Town, Borough, and County i❑ England and Ireland, under the influence of Universal Suffrage; what it has been, after six years of comparative tranquillity, would be per petually renewed by Annual Parliaments. The only thing that saves Westminster from complete degradation is its unanimous contempt of that creature, HUNT. You have lately given us, Sir, one of the ablest and wisest political documents that ever passed through the Press ; in the concluding election speech of Mr. CANNING at Liverpool. It deserves .• to be printed and re-printed in every possible form, and, circulated to every house and cottage in the [Jolted Kingdom. From this document, therefore, that I may contribute to the citeula tion of one part of it at least, 1 will draw the con clusion of my present Address. After observing that the present pretended Reformers neither at tack the Crown nor the House of Lo . rds, he thus wisely accounts for it : " Gentlemen—This, though extraordinary, is not unintelligible. The Reformers are wise in their generation. They know well enough, and have read plainly enough in our own History, that the prerogatives of the Crown and the privi leges of the Peerage would be but as dust in the balance against a preponderating Democraey.— They mean Democracy, and nothing else. Give them but a [louse of Commons constructed on their (y') principles, the Peerage and the Throne May be swept away by the first angry vote of such a House of Commons." You see, Sir, why the 13urdettites hate Mr. CANNING. It is exactly as the Devil was suppos ed to hate Holy hater; because l►e counteracts their magic, and renders their incantations inef fectual ! It is time for all who love our glorious Constitution to rise in its behall like hint. OLD SO:NIERS. THEATRICAL. REGISTER. Performed Last Nil;la. THEATRE.—Le Nozze di Fig:iro. In the course of which, an incidental Divertiseinent. End of the Opera, Tamerlane and Bajaza. THEATRE it OYAL, COVENT-GARDP.3.—Artaxerxes : Arbaces, Mr. Sinclair; Mandane, Miss Stephens. After which, The Child of Nature. To which was added, Harlequin Gulliver. TMCATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA, STRAND.—The Duenna : Dun Carlos, Mr. Pearman ; Clara, Miss Carew. After which, La Perouse. FOR TIM SUN. Enrroa,—lt is much wished by several per sons, and it must be a general convenience to have it known, what is the proposed mode of proceeding as to the New Parliament—Are the Members to meet and he sworn in ? Are they then to be early prorogued ; or are the fourteen days for receiving petitions as to Elec tions to be pissed, so as to preclude subsequent petitions on that subject ? The communication of intelligence on these points will give much sa tisfaction to the Public in general. A. Z. INSANE PERSON.—The' family of Mr. TIIACK RAY, Granby-place, Lamb et h, w a s excessively alarmed yesterday morning, by a man in a de ranged state of mind, who jumped trout the street throtigh the parlour window, bmasbed the panes of glass, broke the Venetian blinds, and seizing a poker, exclaimed to twa Ladies who were in tie room that they had not a moment to live: the females ran out of the house very much terrified, and procured the assistance of a constable, by whom he was taken before a Magistrate, who signed an order for Ilk admission into Lambeth workhouse. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Sunday last. They maintain the most determined silence with regard to the Conspiracy. The Mo niteur devotes again nearly four columns to the details of the Westminster Election. The fol- lowing are extracts : nulls, JULY 5.- 7 -Yesterday the Duke of `Wellington, accompanied by his Aid-de-Camp, Mr. Cradock, proceeded at one o'clock to St. Cloud, to pay his respects to his Majesty, and also to Monsieur and the Duke and Duchess d'Angou leme. His Grace wore the Grand Cordan of Saint Esprit. " The Count Decazes, the Minister of Police, Aransacted business with his Majesty at St. Cloud yesterday at noon. The young Princess Royal of Wurtemberg was baptized on the 27th nit. at Stuttgard. She received the names of Sophia Frederica Matilda. " Lieut.-General the Count de Marescal is ap pointed President of the Commission created by his Majesty for the purpose of accommodating the state of defence of France to her new frontier. " General Dejean, son of the former Minister of that name, included in the second Ordonnance of the montl► of July, has obtained from his Ma jesty permission to return to France, and he is now at Paris with his family. " Mademoiselle Eliza Garnerin ascended in a balloon from Botirdeaux, on the 2,Bth ult. She descended in a short time, but owing to the wind, fell in the middle of the river ; two boats, how ever, were at hand, which prevented all danger. FIVE PER CENTS. Saturday Luau Certificates, 74 f. 90c. 13i DEFERRED STOCK Of the 22d March, 1817, B6 f. 35 c. 22d Sept. 1817, .... 84 f. 35c 22d March, 1318, B2 f. Ssc. " PETERSBURGH, JUNE 9.—His Eminence the Metropolitan Ambrose died on the 26th ult., in his Archbishopric of Novogorod. " HESSE CASSEL, JUNE 25.—The Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia will, it is said, pay a visit to our Court on their way to Aix-la- Chapelle. NUREMBERG, JUNE 26.—There is to be a pleasure Camp of 30,000 men in the environs of Berlin, during the stay of the Emperdr Alexander in that Capital. " FRANKFORT, JUNE 30.--The *kirk's' of the Hereditary Prince of Hesse Homburg, and her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth, his Con sort, is fixed for the 4th of July." It is observed in The Morning Chronicle of this day, that as the Paris Papers are totally silent on the reported Conspiracy, and as the French Funds continue to rise, it believes the whole to be a mystification. As to the silence of the French Paper, it is well known that nothing can be pub lished in them but what will expose them to sup pressio❑ or the Conductors to punishment, unless they have the previous sanction of Government. If it be true that persons likely to be most inte rested in the stability of the Throne have taken any part in the Plot, it is the more necessary to he cautious in the developement of particulars, lest the vulgar hatred of high characters should receive a stimulus, and that hatred b;• increased by contempt. Besides, in order to discover the full extent of a Conspiracy, and to trace it through all its ramifications, the less it is exposed the better, till the whole is completely developed. As to the rise of the Funds, it might well pro ceed from the frustration of an alarming Plot, as the Traitors might be brought to punishment, and the Government be rendered more se cure. But, with all duc respect for the sa gacity of The Morning Chronicle, notwithstanding that its " prognosticating predictions," to use its own memorable words, have so often been falsifi ed, we really can see nothing in the present state of France that can require the production of 11716 ' ginary plots. There are factious enough in V r3llc. who are pe r p e t ua lly a t wor k t o co unterac t each other, and who would resort to any mean s 1° 3c' comps() that object. But, more than all, tl, spirit of Jacobinism is prevalent there, and is ill : cessantly endeavouring to trample upon ev er ; Party but its own, in order to obtain the mesl e l in that country, and to create consternation anti confusion in all other. But, as WC have s"I before, on the authority of a Correspondent, evidently knows more than he deems it prUd v ' n to disclose, there is reason to believe that O r / high Persons have •been implicated in the ail e dgea . conspiracy, and consequently that the p ublic e be posure of their conduct might be injuriou s to t general estimation of the Royal Family. 0°614 said thus much in reference to The Morning Ch ° Hide, we shall leave it to its conjectures, its dou bts and its mystifications, solemnly persuaded o urselves ~ that a most alarming plot has really been detect° , and frustrated in Paris, and expressing our setis° faction that it was discovered at this critical Pe 1 riod, when, according to report and gener al pectation, the Allied Powers were on the poin t ° determining to withdraw their troops from Frances and consequently to expose that C o untry to 11 new Revolution, and themselves to the necessitf of protecting their own territories against ` be rel f vival of all its former evils. The New T imes o this day, rather bolder than The Morning Ch r°l nicle, has thought proper to atone for its sil enc i, , on the subject of the French Conspiracy by stY litj " . it " one of the most impudent fiCtiONS 0f tb , French Police," and app ears to consider it as the invention of M. CAZE, to have "a new oPr i r (unity to calumniate the Roy a lists, a nd, if P ssib b l e . to excite against them s o m e f res h sus picious ipt minds of the Allied S o ver e i gns ." The New ;oi goes rather farther than decency can just if i' says, that " he (M. CAZE) has not dared, i nue . so „. to name them (the higher persons said to b e 3 but plicated in the plot) in the French Jouru els ' ha re • his hired Scribblers in the English Pee l or s been ordered to name Nobl e m e n w h o se ebil etic o are far above all the efforts of such peitY t nalice. o . Now THE SUN was the Paper th a t, on the antb it city of a most respectable Correspon dent Paris, communicated this alarming C nils ! r ; racy to the Public, and in justice t ° pelves we deem it nece s sary t o declare, %Pio we have no kind of conn e xi on w ith Af• and we repel with scorn the imp u tation of be 1 , " hired Scribblers" for France or for this Co unt ," r and in return for so unjust and so illiberal a desi be . nation, with sincere respect, h o wever, i nr talents and principles of the presumed Con d ' ic t tlt° of The New Times, we deem i t p ro p e r to sta te jo g his Paper is not without the i m p uta tion °f be lris hired by the French Royali s ts, an d we wo uld a( lc o f him to be rather more guarded in his mode to defending them, lest we should be pro vyke t afford him matter that will probably ad d 11° little to the difficulty of his undertaking. We have only to add, that the French strof received this day, are still silent on the obi ° r st the Conspiracy, but as it is the topic of g e ! is conversation and free discussi o n all over P eri ' O O is very probable that there - may be strong re 0 , 00 for this cautious silence, or that the ree l r !ja de otherwise have been treated with open and contempt, if it were wholly without foot°ti re' ; ' Lord CASTLEREAGH, we find, has -r e o f elected, without opposition, for the C° antY jo Down, and we trust that lie will re turn ;10 i n safety to this country, notwithstanding the i • dor inP. ligible hint of a certain obtrusive Orator., d r the Westminster COntest, that he Wa s a ror object for Irish vengeance. 10. Extract iy fr,ra a Letter dated Neu , Yorh, "The war undertaken against the Seminole Int li3r° ' T :w3/ freie appears, terminated favourably to the United Stat°'tt . s O f supposed that General Jacks o n, after having cbo rett'rnen Indians, would have withdrawn the troops an d e is within his own limits; b u t, instead of doin g this, " 13 d 0 1 leaving gavrisons at St. Mark's, Fort liail' den ' tic' ef ' jfe ; Scott, and proceeding against Pensacola: it may, t ,,s „ 0 1, 0 be concluded that the' war against the Serninni" pretext to invade the Spani s h t e rritories and get.!:intr. opo d of the Floridas. Thus, we see fhe United Stat",s6;;;i4P, the possessions of Spain which are within thei r ', i f forming alliances with her rebellious Colonies ‘`. , o f arrived at Baltimore a few days ago ; at a distance. A Buenos hyrean Government sl?`!„/ s alni e _ e nn were exchanged between her and' Fort M‘fienrY",,,eall''''''lri he a stronger acknowledgement than this of i" - ',rele s4 :g far to" 00 1 " 6( The European Powers are looking with by eye on the strides which the North ti i_mericans %0-rinces towards obtaining possession of some of the P r Spain in South America." or ONS o f 0 LICENSING S another a rt e ti" YbTEINI.- tine) e or , Paper will be found a notification of 1 6 te rat . 11 on Monday next, in reference to thc iti 7 : o ol' n i l io t i rl e tt e n r t , ar a y s Enquiry upon this oceasnan ere arrived upon the alleged t on ', t o' t cause of suppression of the evide nce bably then be explained. ;ti ter' dOO se , Yesterday the Duke of CLAGENcg n c e rl t ° (111 y II view of the PRINCE REGENT tit The PRINCE; RECENT left town Yester,itteotol ii noon, about half past four o'cloch, tc) 'le ' Royal Mother, the QUEEN, at Ke' v ' t IV . by the Licensing SYsolo ut CLARENCI: left town soon al ter' pUITOSC. MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Waterford, I France. Due—l Waterford, I Lisbon, I Guernsey and Jersey, I Gottenburgb, I Holland, I Malta. PRICE 01 THIS DAY AT r Bank Stock 0 78 i 2 per Cent. Red. 78a 3 per Cent. Cons. .774i Si per Cent 4 per Cents 5 per Cent. N. Ann. 1061 106 STOCKS ELVE o'cLocK. Bank L. Ann.... 20 5-16ths India 80nd5....1005. 995. pr. Exch. Bills, 2d... 18s. 20s. pr. Ditto, 21d........ 19s. 20s. pr. Otnnium . pr. Cons. for Account 79if HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Horning, 51 minutes after 5. 1 Evening, 16 minutes after U. THE SUN. 1110 LEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUI)EAT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1818.